Our Kids

It seems the girls have taken quite nicely to their “big girl beds.”  Our new routine of reading each of the girls a book at bedtime has been neat… Lela loves her “potty book.”  It’s all about a little girl who is learning how to potty and the trials and tribulations she goes through.  Both Lela and Piper really get into the story — they say “Noooooo” and shake their head and appropriate times, and clap and say “Yay!” when the little girl finally uses her potty.  We also get a few “like nyah nyah (Lela)” and “like Piper!” when the book talks about going potty and using a nighttime diaper.  Too cute.

Piper has a couple books that she likes to read… the first is a book about five little pumpkins.  It’s a really short book, but Piper loves it.  The other is an even shorter book, ‘Fuzzy Fuzzy Fuzzy.’  All it contains is five different textures and three-word sentences like “Rough rough rough.”  Turning that into a bedtime story that lasts more than a minute is a challenge, but we power through it.

The girls have only been using their beds for less than a week and we’ve already switched from waking up with some crying and confusion to the girls just getting up, walking out the door and finding mommy and daddy asleep in their big girl (and boy) bed.  That’s great… we like the girls happy in the morning since there’s no guarantee that the other two folks in the house are happy

However… the girls haven’t quite figured out the joys of sleeping in.   This morning the feet-stomping (Lela sometimes stomps out of her room) was at 5:50am.  Yikes.  Even Otto didn’t want to get up.  We were able to con them into laying in bed for 10 minutes or so, but there was a lot of wriggling and not much sleeping, so at 6am we began the day.